Louisiana · County property tax · ACS 2024
Lafayette Parish Property Taxes
The median homeowner in Lafayette Parish pays $1,380 a year, an effective rate of 0.57%, well below the U.S. average.
- $1,380
- Median tax / yr · Below-median bill
- 0.57%
- Effective rate · Low rate
- -31%
- vs U.S. average
- #10 of 64
- rank in LA
The verdict
Homeowners in Lafayette Parish pay a median $1,380 a year in property tax, an effective rate of 0.57%, more affordable than 75% of U.S. counties (Census ACS 2024).
- $1,380
- Median annual tax bill, 2024
- 0.57%
- Effective rate on median home
- #782 of 3135
- U.S. counties by tax burden
- -31%
- vs the national average bill
Effective rate is the median property tax bill divided by the median home value ($242,900). U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024.
Census Bureau ACS property tax data for Louisiana. Population: 247,997. Owner-occupied homes: 66,072.
The median annual property tax in Lafayette Parish is $1,380, which is 17% higher than the Louisiana state average and 31% below the national average. The effective tax rate is 0.57% on a median home value of $242,900. Property taxes represent 2.0% of the median household income in this county.
Lafayette Parish's rate standing among U.S. counties
Primary signal
The effective rate sits near the national middle
Lafayette Parish's 0.57% effective rate sits near the middle of 3,135 tracked counties (more affordable than 75%).
Decision signal 2
Low among Louisiana counties by effective rate
Lafayette Parish ranks #10 of 64 counties in Louisiana by effective rate (84% of in-state counties pay a lower rate).
Decision signal 3
The bill sits well below the national median
Homeowners in Lafayette Parish pay a median annual property tax of $1,380, well below the national median and notably higher than the Louisiana state median. On a $242,900 median home, that works out to an effective rate of 0.57% once the local assessment base and millage are combined.
Decision signal 4
Income and the tax bill sit in the middle band
Property taxes in Lafayette Parish run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.0% of the $67,451 median household income.
Informational notice
Figures describe the median homeowner household in Lafayette Parish as reported to the Census Bureau; your parcel can differ. Not tax, legal, or financial advice: check the county assessor or a qualified professional before decisions that depend on these numbers.
The rate held while the market moved
Lafayette Parish sits in the quarter of U.S. counties whose effective rate moved least over this span: 0.3% down, against a median home value that rose 28.0%.
A near-steady rate on a moving market passes that movement straight through: the median bill rose 27.7%, from $1,081 to $1,380.
Effective rate is the published median bill divided by the published median home value, so the two multiply back to the bill exactly; the rate's movement here is derived from those two figures rather than read from the rounded published rate. Both are ACS 5-year survey estimates for the median owner-occupied household, compared across non-overlapping releases. They describe what the Census published, not a local policy, assessment, or exemption change.
How to read this county's bill
The bill here climbed steeply over 2020-2024, up 28% from $1,081 to $1,380. These ACS medians describe the reported change; they do not identify whether a levy, assessment, home value, or change in the responding households caused it.
The largest reported group here falls at the bottom of the national range: 16,810 of 66,072 owner-occupied homes (25.4%) report annual real-estate taxes under $800. This distribution describes reported owner-occupied homes, not an affordability judgment for any property.
Incomes run above the national midpoint and the rate is in the lowest quarter, leaving the median bill at 2.0% of median household income. Both figures move in the same direction here, so the ratio above is not pulled in two directions the way it is in most counties.
The share above is the median annual bill divided by median household income, a ratio of two county-level medians rather than a household-by-household figure.
What Lafayette Parish Homeowners Actually Pay
The single largest group of Lafayette Parish homeowners, 16,810 of 66,072 owner-occupied homes (25.4%), pays less than $800 a year. The median is one point in this spread, not a typical bill.
- Less than $800 25.4% (16,810)
- $800 to $1,499 22.5% (14,877)
- $1,500 to $1,999 12.2% (8,055)
- $2,000 to $2,999 12.4% (8,197)
- $3,000 or more 15.7% (10,405)
Census ACS 2024, table B25102. Bands and the no-tax share sum to 100%.
7,728 homes here (11.7%) report no real estate tax at all, a sizeable minority for a county this size. Exemptions are set by state: how Louisiana handles assessments and appeals.
With vs Without Mortgage
Mortgaged homeowners in Lafayette Parish pay a substantially higher bill, 38% more, pointing to a wide home-value gap between the two groups.
Lafayette Parish's effective rate vs peers
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value), ACS 2024.
Lafayette Parish's effective rate is higher than 84% of the 64 counties in Louisiana - ranking #10 of 64.
Where Lafayette Parish sits among every U.S. county
Effective property tax rate (median tax ÷ median home value)
0.57% Among the most affordable more affordable than 75% of 3,135 U.S. counties
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Source U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2024
What changed since 2020
The median bill in Lafayette Parish moved from $1,081 in the 2020 release to $1,380 in 2024, a change of about 28%. These are American Community Survey 5-year estimates compared across releases that share only one sample year, which is why this page never compares consecutive releases: those overlap in four years of the same households and move mostly on sampling.
Lafayette Parish vs Benchmarks
| Metric | Lafayette Parish | Louisiana Avg | U.S. Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Annual Tax Below-median bill | |||
| Effective Tax Rate Low rate | |||
| Median Home Value | |||
| Tax as % of income Below-median income burden | 2.0% | - | - |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates. Tax-burden differences across rows reflect millage decisions, assessment-ratio practices, and the residential-vs-commercial mix of each tax base.
Lafayette Parish is QUIET · LIGHT on ACS medians, still verify your parcel card before quoting the county figure. Estimate appeal savings · Louisiana counties.
Lafayette Parish rate trail · QUIET
| Year | Median Tax (vs prior release) | Effective Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1,380 +3.8% | 0.57% |
| 2023 | $1,329 +6.7% | 0.57% |
| 2022 | $1,246 +8.5% | 0.56% |
| 2021 | $1,148 +6.2% | 0.59% |
| 2020 | $1,081 | 0.57% |
Each row is a separate ACS 5-year release, and consecutive releases share four of their five survey years. The percentage beside each bill is therefore movement in the published estimate against the previous release, not a single year's tax change. The two releases largely describe the same households. For change over time, compare releases that do not overlap.
Lafayette Parish: tax-to-income at 2.0%
Counties near Lafayette Parish's effective rate
On effective rate, Lafayette Parish sits nearest Russell County (KY), Laurel County (KY), Grayson County (KY).
On published median-tax change, the nearest matches are Randolph County (IN), Jackson County (MO), Carlton County (MN).
How peers are chosen
These are the nearest cross-state matches in the published Census data, not neighboring counties or recommendations. Peers are rebuilt with each data release; see the calculation method.
Similar effective rates
Similar published median-tax changes, 2020–2024
Lafayette Parish: only 5% of returns show Schedule A real-estate tax
Tax year 2022: 5,180 of 113,810 returns from Lafayette Parish reported real estate taxes, averaging $3,925 - 40% of those reporters sat in the $200k+ AGI band.
What this IRS county file does not say
Amounts are reported before the SALT cap, not deducted; the share is of filers, not homeowners. Source: IRS SOI county data, tax year 2022.
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Lafayette Parish rate FAQs
- What is the average property tax in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana?
- The median annual property tax in Lafayette Parish is $1,380, an effective rate of 0.57% on a $242,900 median home (Census ACS, 2024).
- What is the tax affordability score for Lafayette Parish?
- Lafayette Parish, Louisiana scores C (59/100) on PlainPropertyTax's tax affordability composite across 5 Census ACS dimensions (effective rate, bill size, income share, mortgage gap, and home-value/income). Its strongest scored dimension here is rate relief at B+ (0.57%). The score compares published county medians to U.S. percentiles, it is not a personal bill and not advice to buy, sell, appeal, or relocate.
- How does Lafayette Parish property tax compare to the national average?
- Property taxes in Lafayette Parish run well below the national median of $1,993, an effective rate of 0.57% versus 0.92% nationally.
- Are property taxes increasing in Lafayette Parish?
- The ACS median property-tax bill for Lafayette Parish jumped 27.7% between the 2020 and 2024 5-year releases, from $1,081 to $1,380, a 4-year span. These are survey estimates covering five years each, so this compares the two releases furthest apart rather than consecutive ones, which overlap and would mostly measure the same households twice.
- What percentage of income goes to property taxes in Lafayette Parish?
- Property taxes in Lafayette Parish run within the commonly cited 2%-4% national benchmark, at about 2.0% of the $67,451 median household income.
What to do with Lafayette Parish's QUIET rate
Lafayette Parish's $1,380 median bill sits well below the U.S. median - still size a parcel estimate; local millage and exemptions move the real bill. Estimate your bill →
Lafayette Parish ranks #10 of 64 Louisiana counties by effective rate - on the higher-burden half of the state ACS set. Louisiana overview →
Nationwide peers by effective rate (then bill)
Rate-first peers for Lafayette Parish's QUIET effective rate, then a disjoint out-of-state bill set so the two neighborhoods stay distinct.
Similar effective rate
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS effective rate. This county: 0.57%.
Similar median bill
Nearest out-of-state counties by ACS median annual tax. This county: $1,380/yr. Rate peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Read with Lafayette Parish
Nearest ABS(median_tax) ACS peers for Lafayette Parish (QUIET · LIGHT), replacing the old fixed Keep exploring strip.
QUIET LIGHT
Norman County, MN
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,378/yr (near-tied bill ABS $2); rate 0.94% vs Lafayette Parish 0.57%.
Lee County, MS
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,384/yr (near-tied bill ABS $4); rate 0.69% vs Lafayette Parish 0.57%.
Posey County, IN
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,384/yr (near-tied bill ABS $4); rate 0.62% vs Lafayette Parish 0.57%.
Cass County, TX
ABS(median_tax) peer · $1,375/yr (near-tied bill ABS $5); rate 0.94% vs Lafayette Parish 0.57%.
Louisiana county set
State ACS overview for every published Louisiana county rate and median bill.
Assessment cycle basics
Lafayette Parish stamps QUIET · LIGHT - how assessed value and millage become the ACS median bill.
Data vintage and method
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates.
Property tax data reflects median amounts paid by homeowners. Effective rates are calculated as median tax divided by median home value.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, county median real-estate taxes · 2024 Lafayette Parish (QUIET · LIGHT) - ACS medians, not a parcel bill.